How different everything is when you are with the right people!

A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.

I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...

...glass words for you, Beloved—rain beads from an abacus of pain...

A good book is not the same as a successful one.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way.